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authorAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>2020-08-03 11:27:06 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-08-28 12:32:52 +0200
commit40b8b826a6998639dd1c26f0e127f18371e1058d (patch)
treed24f87d081592c1cd3cc86f85fbbad39c29f3a23 /lib/kobject.c
parent4965b8cd1bc1ffb017e5c58e622da82b55e49414 (diff)
kobject: Restore old behaviour of kobject_del(NULL)
The commit 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()") inadvertently dropped a possibility to call kobject_del() with NULL pointer. Restore the old behaviour. Fixes: 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()") Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com> Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803082706.65347-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kobject.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 3afb939f2a1c..9dce68c378e6 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -637,8 +637,12 @@ static void __kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj)
*/
void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj)
{
- struct kobject *parent = kobj->parent;
+ struct kobject *parent;
+
+ if (!kobj)
+ return;
+ parent = kobj->parent;
__kobject_del(kobj);
kobject_put(parent);
}